佳佳唱片

向李斯特致敬  (12首超技練習曲/3首音樂會練習曲/帕格尼尼大練習曲)
阿米爾.卡茲  鋼琴

Following Chopin’s Etudes and Schubert’s 8 Impromptus, Amir Katz now presents an all-Liszt programme on his fifth album for ORFEO. The booklet is written by Amir Katz and contains transcriptions of testimonies of Liszt’s students.
Liszt’s Etudes represent a peak in the history of piano writing. Beyond the tremendous technical difficulties, Liszt’s Etudes are poetic works, etudes tableaux, suggesting programme music influenced by literature, painting, and folklore as can be identified by titles such as Mazeppa, Wilde Jagd, Gnomenreigen and Feux follets. Similar to Schumann, Liszt added those lyrical headings as an afterthought to stimulate the fantasy of both the listener and the performer, thus paving the path to piano playing as we know it today.

“I have chosen to bring here authentic testimonies regarding the Etudes from the late masterclasses he gave in Weimar, Pest, and Rome in the early 1880s, just a few years before his death in 1886. The testimonies are given by his students Carl Lachmund, August Gollerich, Vianna da Motta and Arthur Friedheim. These precious testimonies provide us with an original and inspired illustration that faithfully represents Liszt’s masterclasses and his artistic calling." – Amir Katz

CD 1  73:48
Trois etudes de concert, S144
1 Il lamento  8:48
2 La leggierezza  5:03
3 Un sospiro  5:37
2 Etudes de Concert, S145
4 Waldesrauschen  4:09
5 Gnomenreigen  3:37
6 Ab irato, Grande etude de perfectionnement, S142/4b 2:44
Grandes Etudes de Paganini, S141
7 Etude No 1 in G minor (Preludio, Andante; Etude –  Non troppo lento) (“Tremolo") 4:55
8 Etude No 2 in E flat major (Andante capriccioso) 5:14
9 Etude No 3 in G sharp minor  (Allegretto) (“La campanella") 5:01
10 Etude No 4 in E major (Vivo) (“Arpeggio") 2:03
11 Etude No 5 in E major (La Chasse) (Allegretto) 3:02
12 Etude No 6 in A minor (Theme and Variations) (Quasi presto, a capriccio) 5:37
13 Reminiscences de Don Juan, S418 18:50

CD 2 62:29
Etudes d’execution transcendante, S139
1 I Preludio 0:54
2 II Molto vivace 2:26
3 III Paysage 4:17
4 IV Mazeppa 7:31
5 V Feux follets 3:59
6 VI Vision 6:02
7 VII Eroica 4:23
8 VIII Wilde Jagd 5:11
9 IX Ricordanza 9:41
10 X Presto molto agitato 4:31
11 XI Harmonies du soir 7:58
12 XII Chasse neige5:33